How should I give images rounded corners in Android?

Question

I would like to change an image I loaded to have round corners.

Any hints, tutorials, best practices you know of?

Answer 1

For a more controlled method draw a rounded rectangle and mask it onto your image using the porter-duff Xfer mode of the paint.

First setup the Xfer paint and the rounded bitmap:

Bitmap myCoolBitmap = ... ; // <-- Your bitmap you want rounded    
int w = myCoolBitmap.getWidth(), h = myCoolBitmap.getHeight();

// We have to make sure our rounded corners have an alpha channel in most cases
Bitmap rounder = Bitmap.createBitmap(w,h,Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(rounder);    

// We're going to apply this paint eventually using a porter-duff xfer mode.
// This will allow us to only overwrite certain pixels. RED is arbitrary. This
// could be any color that was fully opaque (alpha = 255)
Paint xferPaint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
xferPaint.setColor(Color.RED);

// We're just reusing xferPaint to paint a normal looking rounded box, the 20.f
// is the amount we're rounding by.
canvas.drawRoundRect(new RectF(0,0,w,h), 20.0f, 20.0f, xferPaint);     

// Now we apply the 'magic sauce' to the paint  
xferPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DST_IN));

Now apply this bitmap ontop of your image:

Bitmap result = Bitmap.createBitmap(myCoolBitmap.getWidth(), myCoolBitmap.getHeight() ,Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas resultCanvas = new Canvas(result)
resultCanvas.drawBitmap(myCoolBitmap, 0, 0, null);
resultCanvas.drawBitmap(rounder, 0, 0, xferPaint);

Bitmap with rounded corners now resides in result.

Answer 2

Why not use clipPath?

protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    Path clipPath = new Path();
    float radius = 10.0f;
    float padding = radius / 2;
    int w = this.getWidth();
    int h = this.getHeight();
    clipPath.addRoundRect(new RectF(padding, padding, w - padding, h - padding), radius, radius, Path.Direction.CW);
    canvas.clipPath(clipPath);
    super.onDraw(canvas);
}

Answer 3

Romain Guy himself writes about this in his blog:

To generate the rounded images I simply wrote a custom Drawable that draws a rounded rectangle using Canvas.drawRoundRect(). The trick is to use a Paint with a BitmapShader to fill the rounded rectangle with a texture instead of a simple color. Here is what the code looks like:

BitmapShader shader;
shader = new BitmapShader(bitmap, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP);

Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
paint.setShader(shader);

RectF rect = new RectF(0.0f, 0.0f, width, height);

// rect contains the bounds of the shape
// radius is the radius in pixels of the rounded corners
// paint contains the shader that will texture the shape
canvas.drawRoundRect(rect, radius, radius, paint);

The sample application goes a little further and fakes a vignette effect by combining the BitmapShader with a RadialGradient.

Answer 4

Here's a way I discovered to do it with an ImageView. I tried other methods, including the answers here and on similar questions, but I found that they didn't work well for me, as I needed the corners to be applied to the image view and not directly to the bitmap. Applying directly to the bitmap won't work if you're scaling/cropping/panning that bitmap, since the corners will also be scaled/cropped/panned.

public class RoundedCornersImageView extends ImageView {
    private final Paint restorePaint = new Paint();
    private final Paint maskXferPaint = new Paint();
    private final Paint canvasPaint = new Paint();

    private final Rect bounds = new Rect();
    private final RectF boundsf = new RectF();

    public RoundedCornersImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        init();
    }

    public RoundedCornersImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init();
    }

    public RoundedCornersImageView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        init();
    }

    private void init() {
        canvasPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
        canvasPaint.setColor(Color.argb(255, 255, 255, 255));
        restorePaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP));
        maskXferPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY));
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        canvas.getClipBounds(bounds);
        boundsf.set(bounds);

        canvas.saveLayer(boundsf, restorePaint, Canvas.ALL_SAVE_FLAG);
        super.onDraw(canvas);

        canvas.saveLayer(boundsf, maskXferPaint, Canvas.ALL_SAVE_FLAG);
        canvas.drawARGB(0, 0, 0, 0);
        canvas.drawRoundRect(boundsf, 75, 75, canvasPaint);

        canvas.restore();
        canvas.restore();
    }
}

Here's an alternative that uses hardware layers for the final layer composite:

public class RoundedCornersImageView extends ImageView {
    private final Paint restorePaint = new Paint();
    private final Paint maskXferPaint = new Paint();
    private final Paint canvasPaint = new Paint();

    private final Rect bounds = new Rect();
    private final RectF boundsf = new RectF();

    public RoundedCornersImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        init();
    }

    public RoundedCornersImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init();
    }

    public RoundedCornersImageView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        init();
    }

    private void init() {
        canvasPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
        canvasPaint.setColor(Color.argb(255, 255, 255, 255));
        restorePaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP));
        maskXferPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY));

        setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_HARDWARE, restorePaint);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        canvas.getClipBounds(bounds);
        boundsf.set(bounds);

        super.onDraw(canvas);

        canvas.saveLayer(boundsf, maskXferPaint, Canvas.ALL_SAVE_FLAG);
        canvas.drawARGB(0, 0, 0, 0);
        canvas.drawRoundRect(boundsf, 75, 75, canvasPaint);

        canvas.restore();
    }
}

At first I wasn't able to get it to work with this method because my corners were becoming black; I later realized what the problem was after reading this question: Android how to apply mask on ImageView?. It turns out that modifying the alpha in the canvas is actually "scratching it out" directly on the screen, and punching a hole to the underlying window which is black. That's why two layers are needed: one to apply the mask, and another to apply the composited image to the screen.

Answer 5

How about creating a NinePatchDrawable image that has just rounded corners and has a transparent body. Overlay your image with an appropriately re-sized version of your NinePatchDrawable.

Answer 6

package com.pkg;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.PorterDuffXfermode;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.graphics.RectF;
import android.graphics.Bitmap.Config;
import android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.widget.ImageView;

public class RoundedImage extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    ImageView imag;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        imag=(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.image);

        //ImageView img1=(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
        BitmapFactory.Options bitopt=new BitmapFactory.Options();
        bitopt.inSampleSize=1;
        // String img=Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString();
        // String filepath =Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString();
        String filepath ="/mnt/sdcard/LOST.DIR";
        File imagefile = new File(filepath + "/logo.jpg");
        FileInputStream fis = null;
        try 
        {
        fis = new FileInputStream(imagefile);
        }  
        catch (FileNotFoundException e1)
        {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e1.printStackTrace();
        }
        Bitmap bi = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis);
        if(bi!=null){
            imag.setImageBitmap(getRoundedCornerBitmap(bi));
        }

    }

    public static Bitmap getRoundedCornerBitmap(Bitmap bitmap) {
    Bitmap output = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap.getWidth(),
         bitmap.getHeight(), Config.ARGB_8888);
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(output);

    final int color = 0xff424242;
    final Paint paint = new Paint();
    final Rect rect = new Rect(0, 0, bitmap.getWidth(), bitmap.getHeight());
    final RectF rectF = new RectF(rect);
    final float roundPx = 12;

    paint.setAntiAlias(true);
    canvas.drawARGB(0, 0, 0, 0);
    paint.setColor(color);

    canvas.drawRoundRect(rectF, roundPx, roundPx, paint);

    paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(Mode.SRC_IN));
    canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap, rect, rect, paint);

    return output;
    }
}

Answer 7

Here's another rounded ImageView implementation using Path. The performance is great, but in certain conditions some bugs may appear on emulators because of the hardware drawing.

public class RoundImageView extends ImageView {

    private Path mPath;
    private RectF mRect;
    private Paint mPaint;

    private int mCornerRadius;
    private float mImageAlpha;
    private boolean mIsCircular;

    public RoundImageView(Context context) {
        this(context, null);
    }

    public RoundImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        this(context, attrs, R.attr.roundImageViewStyle);
    }

    public RoundImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);

        TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(
                attrs, R.styleable.RoundImageView, defStyle, 0);

        mCornerRadius = a.getDimensionPixelSize(R.styleable.RoundImageView_cornerRadius, 0);
        mIsCircular = a.getBoolean(R.styleable.RoundImageView_isCircular, false);
        mImageAlpha = a.getFloat(R.styleable.RoundImageView_imageAlpha, 1);

        a.recycle();

        setAlpha((int) (mImageAlpha * 255));

        // Avoid expensive off-screen drawing
        setLayerType(LAYER_TYPE_HARDWARE, null);

        mPath = new Path();

        mRect = new RectF();

        mPaint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
        mPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DST_IN));
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        super.onDraw(canvas);

        mPath.reset();

        if (mIsCircular) {
            float halfWidth = canvas.getWidth() / 2;
            float halfHeight = canvas.getHeight() / 2;
            float radius = Math.max(halfWidth, halfHeight);

            mPath.addCircle(halfWidth, halfHeight, radius, Path.Direction.CW);
        } else {
            mRect.right = canvas.getWidth();
            mRect.bottom = canvas.getHeight();

            mPath.addRoundRect(mRect, mCornerRadius, mCornerRadius, Path.Direction.CW);
        }

        canvas.drawPath(mPath, mPaint);
    }
}

P.S. Learn OpenGL ES provided the best solution. It's very smooth and works on emulators too.

Answer 8

best solution I found ->

1) create rounded corner drawable. And set to imageview as background.

<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" >
<corners
    android:radius="10dp" /></shape>

2) Then set image view object property of setClipToOutline(true) in java code.

imageview.setClipToOutline(true);

It works like charm